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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
^^ok but how do you do that? Gather 80k in one place under the circumstances? And if you can’t do it with fans how does it pay? How do the owners make money? The NFL has very lucrative tv deals, but not the NHL, they cannot pay 80 million in salaries with no return.
What I could see is a completion of the 2020 NHL season and playoffs next year without fans, because the players have already been paid.
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The NFL could play in empty stadiums because ticket revenue pales compared to TV revenue. For example the NFL will make over $55 billion in TV revenue alone from a season and to put that into perspective the 2nd most money making league in MLB only grosses $10 billion total in an entire season. The NFL 2020 season will happen one way or another regardless of gathering restrictions. For the NHL especially that depends on gate revenue things will be much more difficult and unlike the NFL they are at the mercy of city/state/province rulings.